For nearly a year, she’s worked with a group of Jamaica Plain residents on a pilot program that is deploying the organization’s plant-based rat birth control pellets in key spots around the ...

Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a miso soup and a bug in another meal, the company said Saturday.

“Every house has rats and nobody is doing anything about it,” said Shuvro Md, of Jamaica Hills, Queens. That neighborhood part of the borough’s Community Board 8 — alongside ...